Tuesday, November 03, 2015

MacGregor says a US Army Armored Division would be "annihilated" by its Russian equivalent...

via Politico...

In early September he circulated a PowerPoint presentation showing that in a head-to-head confrontation pitting the equivalent of a U.S. armored division against a likely Russian adversary, the U.S. division would be defeated.“Defeated isn’t the right word,” Macgregor told me last week. “The right word is annihilated.”The 21-slide presentation features four battle scenarios, all of them against a Russian adversary in the Baltics – what one currently serving war planner on the Joint Chiefs staff calls “the most likely warfighting scenario we will face outside of the Middle East.”

First. PLEASE GET ME A COPY OF THAT POWER POINT!!!!!! Next. It gets worse. Check this out...

“Every time we deploy a division we deploy a division headquarters of 1,000 soldiers and officers,” Macgregor explains. “What a waste; those guys will be dead within 72 hours.”

Note. PLEASE GET ME A COPY OF THAT POWER POINT!!!!! This short article is a must read. Check it out here.

Sidenote: I'll tell ya ahead of time. Spare me the venom/hater-aid toward MacGregor. The guy might be a rebel but he's one of the few Army advocates that appears to be thinking instead of simply cheerleading. We need more of that across the services.